Erna Visk (4 May 1910 – 20 April 1983) was an Estonian and Soviet politician.
Erna Visk was born in
Pärnu
Pärnu () is the fourth-largest city in Estonia. Situated in southwest Estonia, Pärnu is located south of the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and west of Estonia's second-largest city, Tartu. The city sits off the coast of Pärnu Bay, an inlet of ...
. Her father was
Workers' United Front
The Workers' United Front () was a political party in Estonia.
History
The party was a front for the Communist Party, which had used umbrella organisations to participate in politics since being banned in 1918.Jüri Visk, who served in the
II Riigikogu
II Riigikogu was the second legislature of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu). The legislature was elected after 1923 elections (held on 5–7 May 1923). It sat between 31 May 1923 and 14 June 1926, before the next round of elections were held. ...
.
She was appointed Minister of Social Security of the
Estonian SSR
The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, (abbreviated Estonian SSR, Soviet Estonia, or simply Estonia ) was an administrative subunit ( union republic) of the former Soviet Union (USSR), covering the occupied and annexed territory of Estonia ...
in 1958. Visk also served in the III
Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR (Estonian language, Estonian: ''Eesti NSV Ülemnõukogu'') was the formal Rubber stamp (politics), rubber stamp legislative body of the Estonian SSR without any substantive meaning, which was formally ele ...
and the IV Supreme Council of the Estonian SSR.
She was buried in
Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...